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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Martin Dwyer
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:11:38 -0600

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Webster and Hamilton Counties, Iowa.
Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1888.

Martin Dwyer, section 18, Badger Township, is one of the prominent citizens
of Webster County. He is a native of Ireland, born in Tipperary County, in
March, 1833, a son of William Dwyer. His mother died in Liverpool, England, and
in 1847 his father left the old country and with his family sailed for America.
They located in Cayuga County, New York, where the father died in 1853. The
family consisted of seven children, three sons and four daughters. Martin Dwyer
remained in New York until 1857, when he came to Iowa, and settled in Wesbster
County. He lived in Fort Dodge about a year and then settled in Pleasant Valley
Township, buying a tract of timber land which he improved and made his home
until the spring of 1872, when he sold his farm and bought the one where he now
lives. While living in Pleasant Valley Township he was one of the school
directors, and took an active part in assisting to organize the township into a
separate municipality. He is a quiet, unassuming man who has never been an
office seeker, preferring to devote his time to the cultivation of the soil, at
which he has been successful. He owns a nice farm of eighty five acres all under
cultivation. He had but limited educational advantages, but is a great reader,
especially of the public press, and keeps himself well posted on all subjects of
general interest. He is not in any sense a politician nor an adherent to any
party. He began life a poor boy and the property he has acquired is due to his
industry and honorable dealing. He was married August 7, 1854, to Miss Ellen
Peters, also a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, who came to America in 1849.
They have one daughter, Mary, who was married January 6, 1879, to Philip
O'Connor. Mr. O'Connor died on board an Atchison, Texas & Santa Fe train near
Garden City, Kansas, when on the way to California for his health. Mrs. O'Connor
has had three children, two sons and one daughter, only one of whom is living,
Martin, born January 4, 1880.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

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